Monday, September 7, 2026

Diary of Corporal John W. Dennett, September 17, 1863

"Boots and saddles" at five A.M.; started at half-past six, and marched to Culpepper. Passed through the town, and went into battery on the outskirts. Went into camp at ten A.M. Five miles.

SOURCE: John Lord Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 280

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